One of the most popular tourist destinations in Russia is the Caucasus. In the aggregate of many natural factors, this region (Caucasian Waters, Mineral, etc.) has no analogues in all of Eurasia. This is a surprisingly beautiful, ecologically clean natural region with numerous ancient monuments.
All these beauties belong to the North Caucasian Federal District, which will be discussed in the article. But first, we will present the features of dividing the territory of Russia into federal districts.
General County Information
In Russia, federal districts were created in accordance with Decree No. 849 of President of Russia Vladimir V. V. "On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Federal District" (2000).
These administrative units are not subjects and they were created similarly to military districts (for example, the North Caucasus Military District with headquarters in Rostov-on-Don), as well as economic regions. They do not coincide with the latter in the number and structure of regions (the exception is the Far Eastern District, identical in structure and name to the economic region).
Number of counties, names, features
In 2000 (the moment of establishment), only seven federal districts were created. Then the first change was made: an increase of up to eight. A new North Caucasian District was separated from the Southern District (according to the decree of President D. A. Medvedev). The second change - the Crimean district was created in 2014. Further in 2016, the latter was annexed to the South. There was only one change in the names - in 2000, the North Caucasian District was renamed South until the North Caucasus District was later separated from it.
The largest in terms of population and number of subjects is the Central District, and the Far East in terms of area. The Central and Ural districts do not have republics among their constituent entities.
The North Caucasus District of Russia does not have a single region. In addition, he is the only one who does not have an absolute majority of ethnic Russians, the largest number of which are in the Central District.
Privolzhsky is the largest district in terms of the share of agricultural and industrial production in the Russian economy. Ural gives the largest tax deductions that form the state budget.
District North Caucasus and South
The southern European part of Russia is occupied by the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts. These territories are characterized by the most favorable environmental conditions for resort business and agriculture, as well as for people's lives. All this makes the economy of these districts unlike the economy of the rest of Russia.
However, there are significant differences in socio-economic development between these two entities.
North Caucasus Federal District (or North Caucasus Federal District)
This is one of the administrative units of the Russian Federation, geographically covering the southern European zone of Russia, the central and eastern parts of the North Caucasus. The district occupies about 1% of the Russian territory (the smallest). Its center is the city of Pyatigorsk. The formation includes the following republics: Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia-Alania, Chechnya. Also, it includes the Stavropol Territory.
This is the only district in Russia in which Russians represent less than 1/3 of the total population. The peculiarity of this formation is also that it is the only one where the administrative center (Pyatigorsk) is not the largest city of its subject.
As noted above, the region was withdrawn from the Southern District in 2010. The North Caucasus District borders on Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan has a sea border (the Caspian Sea).
Due to insufficient investment and the presence of military conflicts, this region has relatively low economic indicators, although it has considerable potential for development.
Cities
The largest cities are Vladikavkaz, Makhachkala and Stavropol. The famous health resort of Caucasian Mineral Waters, located in the Stavropol Territory, is included in the described region, as mentioned above. The famous resort area includes several cities: Pyatigorsk, Essentuki, Zheleznovodsk and Kislovodsk. This is the largest balneological and climatic resort in all of Russia. It has about 130 sources of mineral water and considerable reserves of sludge therapeutic mud extracted in Lake Tambukansky.
